If they were actually ISSUED from Ordnance, the rifle would come with a part number in indented form within the VOCAB/VAOS system that would indicate to the technical quartermaster that the rifle was issued as an equipment conprising of......... plus....... plus.......... and so on. In much the same way as we currently have an equipment, such as a sniper rifle, issued as a COMPLETE equipment with a complete equipment schedule.

I'm not going to get into the why's and wherefores of the Ordnance system as my main purpose in life was to get as much out of them as I could! But I stand by what I said about the rifle being issued as a single unit, on its own. If a unit numbered bayonets to them, or pullthroughs etc etc, that is/was a matter for them - stupidly in my opinion! A bayonet was interchangeable with any rifle. Indeed, in our Armourers shops we always had a yellow or white handled 'slave' bayonet. One of each weapon type, JUST to test this interchangeability.

The 1940 Equipment Regulations make absolutely NO mention whatsoever of numbering bayonets
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